WILL GIVE MEDAL. Have you ever seen rational exponents? Rational exponents are designed to fit within the properties of exponents. That is, (3^1/2)^2 is equal to 3^1, or 3. What operation does the power 1/2 represent? Can you think of operations that other fractional powers represent, such as 1/3, 1/4 and 2/3?

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Square of a number merely represents that a number is multiplied two times

witty_roger · Answer

so square root of a number of a number or ^1/2 tells u which number was multiplies twice to get that number